Enjambment and fragments can create a sense of uncertainty and surprise. Where is the poem going beyond this line break? Where is the nose running off to? So there’s this play with language and desire happening. I think these techniques can create a sense of invitation. Nothing is complete. You are falling up and down through the poem between beaches, fountains, years, cities. I wanted to be invited somewhere romantic like that when I wrote this poem.Matt Broaddus on "Pink Noise" |
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"Make It Strange"
"To create my poem, 'A Partial List of Here and Far,' for example, I pulled apart drafts of two poems that weren’t satisfying to me. I saved the best parts of each and pushed them together to see what they could do when they interacted....I added new elements—thoughts, lines, and phrases, in the case of the poem—building surprise and complexity into the text."
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